Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago he made a study of the British income tax system for Secretary Morgenthau. He advocates: simplifying the tax laws to save taxpayers much needless litigation; putting the Bureau of Internal Revenue on a career instead of patronage basis; an entirely new method of taxing capital gains. Not since Congress in 1930 created the job of Director of the Bureau of Prisons has it been vacant...
Selector for Book Digest is Donald Leonard Gordon, long a consulting expert to the book trade. Mr. Black's book career began in 1923 when he was salesman for a company publishing a one-volume Shakespeare. Launching out for himself on a $500 stake, Bookseller Black became Publisher Black with a one-volume Shakespeare of his own. Since then, Publisher Black has issued over 70 "classics," spent upwards of $1,000,000 advertising them...
...keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati's machine government in 1925, helped draft the city charter which was subsequently adopted. When not busy with Judaism and civic betterment, Lawyer Goldman golfs, delves into...
...will carefully avoid becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense. It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates...
...Hundreds of people, all crowding and shoving their pencils at me. I want to go home." The diminutive Sonje Henie crinkled up her blue eyes in mock exasperation while she sat in her crowded dressing room last night and told modestly of her skating career...